Tobacco Has been In use in many nations for hundreds of years. when the sanish seaman Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic ocen in the year 1492 A.D he really was hoping to find a short rout to India, ''The land of golden glory and Unimaginable Riches''. Fortunately or unfortunately he landed in America. That is why the native of America are still called Red-indians! Columbus found that those native people were smoking tobacco wrapped in leaf. The locals thought that tobacco had some medicinal power! seamen returning to Europe from Americas used to bring this tobacco with them as an imported Luxury! They used to present this to kings and knights. French Ambassdor John Nicot brought this to France and presented it to the king of France in 16th century. Later on to honor (?) the memory of Nicot, tobacco's scientific name was kept as genus Nicotinia! Now Nicotine has become a bad word because of the bad effects of smoking have come to light.
Tobacco is habit forming. Most habitual users derive some relaxation and exeiting stimulation from using tobacco products These people develop addiction. Nicotion, the main alkaloid chemical in tobacco leads to addiction because of these pleasing effects . Initially this addiction appears affordable even by poor hard working people because of very low price. These poor manual workers easily fall for this cheap habit,which can help them continue to work and earn.
When tobacco is burnt during smoking, Liberates Carbon Monoxide, a poisonous gas. This gas interferes with oxygen in lung and blood becomes impure. This gas also combines with healthy hemoglobin in blood making it harmful for body. Body dose not enough oxygen which is so important for energy.
